Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1887-01-06
ALL SORTS.

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"A Maine lady has refused 81 .O0C
for her tresses, 8 feet l inch long.
"A Litchfield, Conn dame of 7C
has got divorce; he left her 81
years ago.
Two widowers in Berry county
Texas, married each others daught-
er recently
Governor Robinson, Of Massa-
chusetts, is an active member of q
swell Boston toboggan clnb.
-Twtnty-one barrels Of -four are
used daily i'll making bread for the
1900 conviets in Sing Sing prison.
"A spark from passing horses
shoe caused an explosion of sewer
gas in a manhole in New York on
Thursday.
"A Georgia rooster recently kill
ed himself by eating 10 grains OF
corn, 50 peanuts, and large guam
tity of dough.
Carpets should never be shaken,
as their weight inclines them to part /;
but should be laid on ropes and then
heaten at the back.
Fifty thousand tons of SCOT are
stated to have been taken from Lon
don chimneys last year. Its value
is set at $204 ,0O0-as a fertilizer.
Mrs. A. Barnes has been ap-
pointed postmistress at Chimney
Point, Va, in place of her husband.
The office has been in the family for
nearly 40 years.
The great legal phenomenon at
Jackson, Mich, is a lawyer who elo-
quently defended in Court, the other
day, man who had stolen from him
an overcoat.
"A cigarette end carelessly cast
aside in cotton-yard at Raleigh, n.
c., last week, started fire that de-
stroyed nearly forty thousand dol
lars worth of property.
When the Wisconsin woman
suffraglsts met in the state senate
chamber last week they refused to
return any thanks for its use be-
cause they said it belonged as much
to them as the men.
"A lad In South Boston having
handed his teacher a note reading !:
Licking don't do this boy any
good talk to him provoked an in
vuiry that led to the discovery that
he had himself written the note.
"A crusade against saloon keep
ers who sell beer and liquors to
children has been begun IN New
York, where 15O, 900 children (chiefy
with pitchers) are said to visit sa-
looms in two hours of an average
week day.
"A doctor who attended a Brook
lYn family in which two children
died of dlphtheria, recently, says be
has traced the infection toa goat
that had come from family where
children we're just recovering from
the same disease.
"A girl in Shelbyville, KY, was
provoked by the bad play of her
partner at croquet She struck him
on the head with mallet, and caus-
ed brain fever, of which he nearly
died. She was kept in custody
until he recovered, and then she
married him.
"A young man In Winston, coun-
ty. Miss, concluded that he would
marry in a bran-new suit without
paying for it. He went to a ner-
chant, obtaiued the clothes ON credit,
stood up in it, and returned it the
next day, claiming that it did not
fit him.
1t is said that one of the curious
results of the Charleston earthquake
is the loss of animals from terror.
Many of the mich cows have gone
dry since the earthquake in the
country about Charleston, and one
man lost seven horses from the eff
fects of terror.
The will of Fred Archer, the
English jockey, is said to have dis
posed of an estate of about $500, 900,
of which nearly one-half goes to his
infant daughter The London pa
pers also say that Archer, was told
sometime ago by gypsy who knew
nothing Of his identity at the time,
that he would Idle early and by his
own hand.
"A Louisville man, who IS said
to have been an avowed atheist, fell
dead IN that city last week, in the
midst of ''blasphemous TRADE In
which he indulged after interrupting
a religious controversy with the as
sertion that there is no God. Some
persons thought his death due to
apoplexty, but the greater number
of the bystanders regarded 1t as di-
rect punishment. As no one would
prepare the remains for burial, the
city undertaken was summon ed the
next day and buried the body in
IPotter's Fleld-no relatives apply
ng for the corpse.
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